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...JUST OVER thirty-two hours the future of computer development may have moved from strategic blueprints on the desks of high-tech executives to a nationwide trend mapped in stone. A sixty-nine digit number--the last in a century-old list of seemingly unfactorable numbers composed by a famous French mathematician--was broken down by a Cray supercomputer. The implications of this are revolutionary. While the breakdown of the number, more simply known as 2251-1, utilized only a sleek algorithm and no revolutionary advances, it signaled the ever-growing importance of ultra-sophisticated computers...
...longer is it sufficient that we have computers which can replace a horde of mathematicians in both speed and accuracy, or robots which render human laborers "impediments" to progress. The "new generation of supercomputers," as they have been dubbed, will make even the supercomputer which solved the sixty-nine digit puzzle look like a pocket calculator...
Most candidates now use "random digit dialing," a computerized system, that makes calls arbitrarily. Spokesmen for all three candidates said poll responses are kept confidential...
...than 47 million have been issued by American Telephone & Telegraph, which operates the long-distance lines that used to be part of the Bell system. The rest have been put out by competitors like MCI. Each AT&T card is supposed to be protected from abuse by a four-digit personal identification number that only the user and the company know. Someone using the card must give both his phone and the identification numbers. But anyone who finds or steals a card, or overhears the numbers being read to an operator, can make illegal calls...
Lingering double-digit inflation and high unemployment, not budget or benefit cuts, were largely to blame, asserted census officials. Nonetheless, on Capitol Hill, the study prompted House Democrats to introduce a bill that would raise the federal contribution to Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other major welfare programs by $ 10.5 billion a year...